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| Appendix III: Tables illustrating the restraints upon international trade imposed by the first contraband agreements with neutrals bordering upon Germany. British contraband list, and neutral prohibitions of export. December, 1914. |
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| [This page is part of our online-publication of the book "A History of the Blockade of Germany and of the countries associated with her in the Great War: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey" by A. C. Bell.] |
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| Arms, Munitions and Military Equipment |
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| Great Britain |  |
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Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
Articles Declared
Contraband Note.: (c.c.) = Conditional Contraband Aircraft of all kinds and their component parts Animals (saddle, pack and draught) Armour plates Arms of all kinds (including arms for sporting
purposes and their component parts) Barbed wire (with fixing and cutting
implements) Camp equipment Cartridges of all kinds and component parts Charges of all kinds and component parts Field forges Field glasses Gun mountings Implements and apparatus for the manufacture of
munitions and war material Limbers and limber boxes Military clothing and equipment Military harness Military wagons Powder and explosives for use in war Projectiles of all kinds and component parts Rangefinders Submarine sound-signalling apparatus Telescopes (c.c.) Warships (including boats and distinctive component
parts) |
Notes. See Text for temporary
variations. Minister for War empowered to grant exemptions
from any prohibitions in special cases. Military Governors of frontier areas under martial
law may prohibit export of any other articles. Ammunition Gunpowder Horses (except colts), geldings under 20 months,
foals under 12 months Leather for military purposes, chrome, equipment
pieces, harness, harness saddles, knapsacks, saddle, sole, upper Limenitrogen Military clothing? Nitro-glycerine or nitro-gelatine ("Nitrogenlime"
in list) |
Animals, foals under one year, horses,
stallions, other live animals Armour plate and other kinds Bayonets; similar weapons, with or without
scabbards, also parts thereof; gilt, silvered, nickelled or etched; other kinds Cannon Cartridge cases, empty or with ammunition ready for
use Cutlasses Explosives, detonating caps (ignition caps),
dynamite, gunpowder, common, guncotton, smokeless powder, igniting material
not specially mentioned for projectiles and guns such as cartridges for beacon
lights, cartridges not specially mentioned, loaded or not, fuses for beacon lights,
blasting, double, percussion, precipitation, safety, time, other explosives not
specially mentioned Firearms, including battery guns without carriages,
machine guns, pistols, revolvers, finished parts of such arms, other guns Foils Gun-carriages Howitzers Lead bullets and lead shot Limber carriages Mortars Projectiles Sabres Torpedoes Wagons, ammunition Weapons War material not specially mentioned and parts
thereof Other war materials |
Brass, cup shaped rudiments for
manufacture of cartridges Copper, cup shaped rudiments for manufacture of
cartridges Dynamite percussion caps Horses, live |
Ammunition of every description, raw
materials for production of, single parts thereof known as such Arms of every description, including sporting guns or
single parts thereof known as such Explosives distinctly intended for war purposes and
raw materials for Gunpowder Horses, all kinds, colts and foals, with exceptions
governed by age Instruments and apparatus exclusively made for
manufacture or repairs of arms and materials for land and sea
battles |
Aeroplanes Animals, donkeys, horses, mules Cannons Carbines Dirigibles Goods, all that can be considered contraband of
war Military equipment, all kinds Pistols Revolvers Rifles Sabres Timber for aeroplane construction |
Animals, asses, horses, mules and their
harness, dogs, military and police Arms and component parts Cables, field Explosive and pyrotechnic materials Gun stocks Harness, completed and
half-completed, leather Microphones Military clothing, underclothing, winter gloves,
stockings, boots, men's, of more than 1,200 grammes weight per pair, woolen
blankets Munitions |
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Food-stuffs and Forage |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Food-stuffs (c.c.) Forage and fodder (c.c.) |
Barley, all products Beetroots, sugar Bread (frontier communes) Buckwheat, all products Butter Cassava and arachide products Cattle, live, and fat of, dried, melted, raw, salted,
smoked, unmelted Cheese Cocoa Cocoabeans, raw Coffee Cotton-seed cake and meal Cubebs Fats, other edible and mixtures of Flour Grain and grain waste Groats Hay Hogwash, dried Katjang (N. East Indies) Legumen Linseed, cake and meal Maize, all products (and N.E.I.) Malt waste Meal of pulps Meatmeal Nutcake, ground Nutmeal, ground Oats, all products Other oil-seed except caraway, mustard and
bluepoppy Other force-feeding cake, and meal and waste
of Pigs, and fat of, dried, melted, raw, salted, smoked,
unmelted Potatoes Pulp, dried Pulse Rape cake, meal and seed Rice (and N.E.I.), and meal and waste Rye, flour, spelt, all products Straw Sugar, and pulp Tea Treacle Wheat, all products |
Arrowroot, flour of Barley, flour, milled, grain, milled and unmilled,
groats, milled Beans Biscuits, dog, and other kinds Bran, other kinds not specially mentioned Bread not specially mentioned Cattle food not specially mentioned (see also
"Oil-cake" below), brewers' grains and wash, gluten food, maize cakes, maize meal
cakes, maize germ meal, meal and maize cakes, molasses food, other kinds (all
even if with admixture of animal substances) Conserves, edible goods of animal or vegetable
origin, preserved in hermetically-sealed or air-tight vessels Flour, milled, other kinds not specially
mentioned Groats, milled, other kinds not specially
mentioned Hay Hemp Macaroni, groats, milled Maize, bran, flour, milled Malt, even if crushed Oats, bran, flour, milled, grain, milled and unmilled,
groats, milled Oil-cake, acorns, ground or not, cotton-seed cake,
earthnut (or arachides), flax seed cake, hemp seed cake, maize flour cakes pressed
together, rape and turnip seed cake, soya bean cake, sunflower seed cake, other
kinds Pease Potatoes, current harvest, brought in from 15th
February to 30th June, cut, dried, other kinds not treated Rice, bran, flour, groats, ground, unhusked or outer
husk only removed Rye, bran, flour, milled, grain, milled and
unmilled Sago, groats, milled Soya beans Straw Vegetables, flour of, not classified under another
head Vermicelli, groats, milled Vetches Wheat, bran, flour, milled, grain, milled and
unmilled, groats, milled |
Cattle Food-stuffs with the exception of all articles required
for a ship about to undertake a voyage, berries, butter, cheese, coffee, eggs, fish,
fish goods, game, margarine, raw products for manufacture of (oleo stock, lard
and arachis, cotton-seed and cocos oils), poultry, spices Forage, meal of herrings, of liver and of whale
meat Goats Pigs Reindeer Sheep |
Bran Bread of all sorts Buckwheat groats Corn, excluding malt Corn waste Fodder Flour Groats Hay "Majenza" groats "Maltspirer" Malt, vegetable stearine for manufacture of
margarine Margarine Meal Oil-cake Pease, cooking and fodder Potatoes Rice Sago groats Soya beans, soya, bruised Straw |
Bacon Barley Beans Beef, tinned Bran Carrots Cattle Cheese Cheese, hard (exemptions may amount to 8,000
tons) Coffee Eggs Flour Food, prepared Hay Indian corn and other cereals Lard Macaroni and such-like special cereals Meat, fresh Mutton, tinned Oats Pigeons, dried Potatoes Rye Sea bread Semolina Sheep Ship-biscuits Straw Sugar Vegetables, dry Vermicelli, and such-like special cereals Walnut meal Wheat |
Bran Cattle, large and small Dried raisins and fruits Food-stuffs (except fresh milk, fresh fish,
sweetmeats, pastries, unsugared rolls, chocolate, "succédanés du
café", specialties such as assaisonnements, Maggi, purée of
tomatoes, flour for children's food, ovoamaltine, drinks and mineral waters,
manufactured tobacco Forage of every kind Hay Litter Seeds Straw |
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Oils |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Benzol Coal tar Cresol Glycerine Lubricants Mineral oils Motor spirits Turpentine oil and spirit |
Benzine Gas oil Glycerine Lubricating oils Machine oils Petroleum Tallow |
Animal oils, animal fats not elsewhere
included, bone fat, blubber of marine animals, other kinds, cod liver oil (other
kinds), degras (tanners' fat), lanoline, lard oil, sperm, spermaceti, train oil, wool
fat, other animal oils Benzine Castor oil Ceresine Cocoa nut oil Cotton-seed oil Cresol Earthnut or arachides oil Gasolene Glycerine, purified, raw Grease, engine and cart Hemp oil Illuminating oil Linseed oil, raw, acid, boiled Lubricating oils (mixture of fatty and mineral oil,
providing latter is chief component), dark, light, other kinds, other lubricating
substances not specially containing fat or oil Maize oil Mineral oils, crude, native, petroleum waste
(massut), other kinds Mineral wax (ozokerite) Olive oil Palm oil Palm nut oil Paraffin, crude, purified Petroleum Soya bean oil Sesame oil Turnip and rape seed oil and acids Vaseline, even if artificial, in barrels or other
vessels Vegetable wax Vegetable fats and fatty oils, cocoa butter, purified
for food, other kinds, other vegetable fatty substances not usually liquid in
ordinary temperatures Oil of every description used either for burning or
lubricating purposes |
Mineral oils |
Benzine Fuel gas oil Glycerine Linseed oil Lubricants, all Mineral oils, all preparations Motor spirits, all preparations Petroleum Vaseline Vegetable oils for manufacture of
margarine |
Benzine Benzol Glycerine Lubricating materials Petroleum Resinous liquids Turpentine oil Tar Vaseline |
Benzine Mineral oils Oils and fats prepared for lubricating Resinous oils (benzine, petroleum, petroleum
residues, naphtha, teretinth, etc.) Tar Tar oils Vegetable and animal oils and fats, industrial |
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Metals and Minerals |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Alumina Aluminium (and salts of) Antimony (with sulphides and oxides of) Bauxite Calcium acetate (and other metallic acetates) Chrome ore Cobalt Copper (unwrought and part wrought) Copper wire Ferro-alloys Ferro-chrome Ferro-manganese Ferro-molybdenum Ferro-tungsten Ferro-vanadium Haematite iron ore Haematite pig iron Iron pyrites Lead (sheet, pig, or pipe) Lead ore Manganese Manganese ore Mercury Molybdenite Molybdenum Nickel Nickel ore Selenium Scheelite Sulphur Tungsten Vanadium Wolframite Zinc ore |
Antimony, reglus of Barbed wire Chilesaltpetre Copper Copper compounds Lead Lead compounds Limesaltpetre Pyrites Salt |
Brass wire Copper, bands, electrolytic, plates, rods (rolled or
forged), unwrought, wire, wrought Iron plates covered with tin Ferro-manganese Lead, lines, manufactured, pipe rods, scrap, sheets,
unmanufactured, waste Mercury Mercury salts Nickel, crude, unmanufactured Plate and sheet goods of all kinds Salt, common (chloride of natrium), cooking, marine,
rock in pieces or ground, saline (dairy salt), table Spiegeleisen |
Barbed wire Brass, bars, rolled and wrought, without further
working up, wire rolled Copper, unwrought (except that produced in
Norwegian works and accompanied by a certificate of origin), bars, rolled and
wrought without further
working up, sheets, pressed and rolled at least 3 mm. in thickness, refuse of, and
of cupriferous alloys (brass, etc.) Sulphur |
Aluminium, unworked Antimony Barbed wire Brass, bars, cocks, plates, old Chrome ore Copper, all kinds, blocks, manufactured, old,
wire Ferro-chrome Ferro-silica Haematite Iron plates, tinned Iron pyrites Lead, all, new and old Manganese Nickel Nickel ore Tin, new and old Zinc in blocks |
Alum Aluminium Antimony Asbestos Brass Bronze Chrome Copper Iron, iron alloys, pig and scrap, plates, scrap Lead Manganese and mineral compounds Nickel and its alloys Silicum Steel plates coated with tin or zinc Steel, scrap Tin and tin plates Zinc |
Aluminium and its amalgamations, raw or
in sheets Antimony Barbed wire and steel wire of all kinds Carborundum, raw Copper, tin, zinc, lead: and all amalgamations, raw or
in sheets, discs, rods, wire Ferro-chrome Ferro-manganese Iron, bars and scrap Kaolin Nickel and its amalgamations, raw or in sheets Rails Saltpetre Sulphur Sulphur, pyrite of |
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Textiles and Clothing |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Flannel, except cotton flannel Flannel underwear Shoes, men's Woollen goods, woollen (half) goods, woollen rags:
blankets, socks, gloves, undervests, sweaters |
Boots and shoes (men's boots of greased
leather) Woollen gloves, jerseys, stockings,
yarn |
Woollen goods |
Woollen tricotage goods - woven,
knitted |
Clothing and equipment for troops, and all
prime materials for their manufacture Cloth Linen |
Textiles in pure or mixed wool Thread Wool and carded wood Worsted yarns |
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Chemical Substances |
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| Great Britain | |
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Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Acetone Ammonium nitrate Ammonium perchlorate Aniline Barium chlorate Calcium nitrate Cyanide Dimethaniline Methaniline Nitric acid Potassium chlorate Potassium nitrate Sulphuric acid Sodium perchlorate Sodium chlorate |
Acetone Ammonium sulphate Ammonium, carbonate of Calcium acetate Cinchona Coca Cocaine Diuretinum Ether Nitric acid Quinine, sulphate, salts and alkaloid compounds
of Soda Soda potash Sulphuric acid Theobrominum |
Acetyl salicylic acid Antefebrine Arecoline and its salts Atropine and its salts Bismuth salts Bromalkali salts Carbolic acid Carbolic acid cresol and metacresol Chloroform Cocaine chloride Codeine Coffeine Diaethylmalonylcarbonide and its salts Fenacitine Hexametylentetramin Hydrogen, peroxide of Iodine Morphine Opium and products of, tincture and other
preparations of for medicinal purposes Paraform aldehyde Physostigmin Potassium iodide Quinine and quinine salts Neo-salvarsan Salicylic acid Salicylic acid salts Salvarsan Serums Sodium iodide Starch, potato Sublimate pastilles Sulphite spirit Tanic acid Tartras stibico kalicus (emetic salt) Teobrominsalicytsyrat natron Vaccine |
Coal tar dye-stuffs and organic by-products
for producing (aniline, naphthol, naphthylamine,
naphthylaminsulphosyrer, etc.) Iodine Iodine, raw Sulphur, flower of |
Sulphuric acid |
Acetone Calcium carbide Calcium hydrochloride (exemptions may amount to
2,000 tons) Nitric acid Phenic acid Picric acid Potash, nitrate of Sodium carbonate Sodium nitrate Sulphuric acid Sulphuric anhydride |
Chloride of soda, compressed Lead, red oxide of, containing nitric, muriatic or
acidozotic acid Muriatic acid Nitric acid Nitro-muriatic acid Oleum vitriolicfumans Oxides, compressed of liquid Pyrogallic acid and its extracts Salts, all containing saltpetre Sulphuric acid, liquid Sulphuric acid, mixture of Tannin |
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Industrial Materials and Equipment |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Camphor Chronometers Floating docks (c.c.) Fuel Harness and saddlery (c.c.) Hides of all kinds, dry or wet (c.c.) Horseshoes and shoeing materials (c.c.) Leather, dressed and undressed (c.c.) Motor vehicles and their component parts Nautical instruments (c.c.) Pigskins, raw or dressed (c.c.) Powder and explosives not prepared for use in
war Railway materials, fixed and rolling (c.c.) Resinous products Rubber, raw, waste and reclaimed, and articles made
of Telegraphic materials (c.c.) Telephonic materials (c.c.) Tyres, for motor vehicles and cycles, and all articles
and materials adapted for use in their manufacture Vehicles (other than motor vehicles) and their
component parts (c.c.) Vessels (craft and boats of all kinds) (c.c.) Wireless telegraphic materials |
Alcohol Automobiles and parts Bicycles Bones Briquettes Charcoal briquettes Coal Coke Colza seed Cotton, any form Fuel, liquid Hides Jute bags, cloth, piece-goods, raw, yarns Leather, wholly or partly manufactured Motor cycles Sacks, empty Tan, extract of Tanning materials Timber for mines Tyres Vehicles, horse drawn Wool, raw, sheep fleeces, shoddy, waste, yarns Yarns, linen, and mixed |
Aloes Balata Bougies Camphor, refined Carriages and vehicles, without motors for
conveyance of goods, with motors for conveyance of passengers and of
goods Catgut Flax Fuel, briquettes of coal and peat, charcoal, coal,
anthracite, coke, gas, steam and other coal, peat, wood, other fuels not specially
mentioned Furriers' goods, of dogs, common sheep, reindeer or
wolves - dressed, not dressed, finished articles having fur covering or
lining, such as boas, caps, carriage aprons, cloaks, fur coats and muffs, skins,
dressed, sewn together, and partly manufactured articles such as linings Gutta-percha Hides and skins, raw (see also "Leather"), not
classifiable as furriers' goods, dressed and partly dressed, leather, bend (cleaned),
hemlock, horse, insole, machine belting, sole, other kinds, half and whole hides,
hippopotamus and walrus hides, pieces of hides Jute and jute bags Leather and skin (see also under "Hides and Skins"),
bands, even if pieced together, bronzed, gold, lacquered, silver, other kinds,
pieces, partly manufactured, not specially mentioned, uppers for boots, other
kinds Motor cycles, finished, and parts thereof not specialty
mentioned Oakum Pease, inedible Rubber, manufactures of soft (see also "Tyres"),
articles not specially mentioned, alone or in combination with other
materials Saddlers' goods, even if of textile materials, and other
manufactures not specially mentioned, of leather or skin, even if in combination
with other materials, such as boxing gloves, crops, fencing gloves, harness, razor
strops, saddles, whips (see also "Hides and Skins," "Leather") Soap and cresol soap solution (lysol) Tanning materials Timber, unmanufactured, of aspen Tin plates Tyres, inner tubes, solid, even if in lengths, motor car
and parts thereof Wool, artificial, dyed and undyed (shoddy and
mungo), rags, sheeps, dyed and undyed, waste, including
so-called "wool-dust," dyed or undyed |
Balata Coal Coke Gutta-percha Hides and skins and their products Jute canvas (jute sacking), except packing round
other goods intended for export, jute products, raw and waste Motor cars Peat Rubber and rubber waste Sacks, empty Tanning materials Timber, aspen Tin packing, plates and parts of Tyres for motor cars and cycles Wool Woollen waste |
Cables, electric Coal Cokes Combustible matter, all Copra Cotton, hygroscopic, sacks, yarn Earth nuts Hides and skins, all lamb and sheep, unprepared,
cattle, raw, calf Jute sacks and jute linen for sacks Leather, all kinds, except of goat skin Manure, artificial, blood, bone, cooked, ground and
raw, sulphate of ammonia, superphosphates Materials, raw, for building or repair of iron or steel
ships Motor cars and all separate parts for Rubber Sesame seed Tar jute Timber, blocks, boards and planks Tyres, motor White waste, cleaning Wool, of sheep and lambs Woollen and half-woollen rags and
shoddy |
Asbestos articles Bone Cables, steel, of strong resistance Coal Cotton, raw and waste Cylinders, compressed gas Flax, export allowed up to 400,000 quintals Gutta-percha Hemp, export allowed up to 400,000 quintals Hides, prepared and raw Horn Jute Motors and fittings Rubber, raw Sanitary material Timber Vehicles, all kinds Wool rags and waste |
Alcohol Boats, with or without motors Bone, and powdered bone Candles, tallow and wax Cobblers' wax Combustibles of every kind: briquettes, coal, coke,
firewood, lignite Cotton, raw and bleached Cotton and linen rags Electric implements Gum in solution Laundry washing, everything used in Leather, boots, half completed, unworked Manure, artificial Motor engines and component parts of motors Paper, old, rag pulp, old cards and rubbish for
manufacture of Pine resin, purified Projectors Rubber and its derivatives Rubber, insulating Sacks and jute material for making them Sanitary material, excluding medical and surgical
goods Skins Starch Starch powder Tannin bark Telephone apparatus Tyres Vehicles, with or without motors Walnut wood Wool, artificial, combings and waste |
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Miscellaneous |
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| Great Britain | |
Holland | |
Sweden | |
Norway | |
Denmark | |
Italy | |
Switzerland |
| Money, gold, silver and
paper |
Bandaging and raw materials for Gold, bullion and coin Gold, silver: N. East Indies Medicines Surgical instruments |
Gold, coins and ingots Silver, coins and ingots Skis and ski staves Suture needles Thermometers (fever) |
Batteries, dry, for electric pocket
lamps Gold, manufactured and unmanufactured, minted and
unminted Silver Gold and silver worked up into ornaments or articles
of use may be exported Medicines |
Gold, bars and minted Silver, bars and minted (including foreign
coinage) Goldbeaters' solder Medicines |
Gold, bars Medicines Money |
Disinfectants Medicines, excluding serums and vaccines Opera glasses with lenses |
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